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Monthly Archives: August 2013
Pour That River On Me
On the long drive eastward, with too much fast food in the system, and with too many hours spent cramped inside a vehicle, it was good to pause for a walk along the river. I was feeling like the locust … Continue reading
Visitors, Southwest
Travel doesn’t come too often for a working fellow rooted among the eastern rivertops, but when it’s offered, I’m reminded how a fly-fisherman, like any other person who resembles an ordinary human being, is just passing through this life. I … Continue reading
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Tagged air balloon, Alamogordo, kingbirds, New Mexico, outdoor recreation, Sierra Blanca, sunset, travel
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Desert Rainbows
New Mexico has a world-class rainbow trout fishery in the San Juan River, but it also has other desert streams of unusual quality. One of the lesser known spring creeks is fished by various angling notables and is definitely worth … Continue reading
Water That Binds
The night rain spreads across the sand and binds the billions of particles for a light impression of foot and claw. The kit fox emerges, and the jack rabbit, and the great horned owl. The darkling beetle wakes with the … Continue reading
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Tagged Chihuahuan Desert, desert rain, gypsum sands, White Sands, White Sands National Park
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Scouting the Penasco
Half way between the sweltering Tulerosa Basin and the cool pine forests of the Lincoln National Forest in southern New Mexico, we stopped to view the canyon where Archaic Peoples ostensibly took shelter in their travels thousands of years ago. … Continue reading
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Tagged Cloudcroft, Lincoln Nat'l Forest, New Mexico birding, NM, Rio Penasco, Sacramento Mountains, Sunspot, Tulerosa Basin
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Climbing the Dog
Richard (my brother-in-law) and I rose early for our hike up the Dog Canyon National Historic Trail outside of Alamogordo, New Mexico. Dog Canyon is a rigorous day hike in any season, especially summer, but at least the clouded sky … Continue reading
One Day in the Catskills
With the long road to New Mexico ahead of me, I glanced back to Saturday’s visit to the 30th Annual Summerfest activities at the Catskill Fly Fishing Center & Museum near Livingston Manor, New York. Before arriving at the Center, … Continue reading
Broken Rod Blues
For many years I’ve recited a little mantra whenever I’m ready to depart for a fly-fishing jaunt, or when I’m finishing a session on the stream. After shedding all equipment and placing it into the car, I check the heap … Continue reading
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Tagged broken rods, favorite rods, ferrules, fishing memories, mantra, Montague, production rods
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A Stream Report
Last week, when the hot and humid weather finally broke, I set out to do another study of a favorite tributary in the upper Genesee River watershed. I decided to fly-fish all of its “miracle mile,” a stretch extending upstream … Continue reading
Rivertop Rambles 